Blog 5

This was an interesting part of Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. One part that stood out to me was the section on will. “The will is thought as a capacity to determine itself to action in conformity with the representation of certain laws. And such a capacity can be found only in rational beings” (39).   I’d say that I agree with this. He goes onto talk about incentives and means. He talks about all ends are subjective, but I wouldn’t say this is true necessarily, he talks about absolute worth, which means that the existence of something in itself is an absolute worth, and as a result, is a determinate laws, meaning that the existence of a human, with absolute worth justifies the use of the will.